One method you should look into and I'll post back an example later is checking out the microsoft's filesystem object. You could possibly call it as a com object in coldfusion. One example of this can actually be found at:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00001585.htm Here they create the object and then the work is done using the com object towards the bottom with: 1. lets first create the com object to use: <cfobject type="com" action="Create" class="Word.application" name="Application.MyWordobj" context="local"> 2. Now its time to set an instance of the object: <cfset docs = application.mywordobj.documents()> 3. Then we call the open method from the object: <cfset docs.open("c:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\temp.doc")> 4. Then set a new document to create: <cfset converteddoc = application.mywordobj.activedocument> 5. Then save as htm: <cfset converteddoc.saveas("c:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\temp.htm",val(8))> 6. and lastly close the file <cfset converteddoc.close()> Try that hopefully that will work. If not tell me what you decide upon. It may be easier to just say the documents as text files first. -Mike > > Has anyone done that? the CFcontent tag is the closest thing pops > up, > > it does some job but still have tons of garbage. If possible I > prefer > > not to use third party bla bla. > > I do not think there is a way to extract text only from a binary Word > document without using a third party component such as POI > http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298412 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
